ADUMBRATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adumbrate mean? 

• ADUMBRATE (verb)
  The verb ADUMBRATE has 2 senses:

1. describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of

2. give to understand

  Familiarity information: ADUMBRATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADUMBRATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they adumbrate    ... he / she / it adumbrates   
Past simple: adumbrated   
Past participle: adumbrated   
-ing form: adumbrating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

adumbrate; outline; sketch

Context example:

outline his ideas

Hypernyms (to "adumbrate" is one way to...):

depict; describe; draw (give a description of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "adumbrate"):

block out (indicate roughly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Give to understand

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

adumbrate; insinuate; intimate

Context example:

I insinuated that I did not like his wife

Hypernyms (to "adumbrate" is one way to...):

hint; suggest (drop a hint; intimate by a hint)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s that CLAUSE